Copyright © 2010 Jason Hutchinson
At the NWA Tech Fest, attending the Cloud track presentations. Most of them are Microsoft-centric, focusing on their Office 365 and Azure product lines, which is disappointingly homogeneous, but still of interest.
The Azure platform's definitely got some power behind it, which I'm hoping will become available to me at my day job soon. Our current cloud solution is woefully underpowered for our needs, and it's starting to negatively impact our performance.
Finally added a form to more easily post blog entries, so hopefully that'll be incentive for me to post more often.
Having worked mostly in node.js lately it's taken me a while to get my PHP legs back, but so far I've converted the site entirely from mysql_real_escape_string to PDO, added a handy blog management page, and fixed up the site's CSS and HTML here and there.
I'll be continuing development as much as I can, and posting as I go. In addition, I intend to blog about the other technologies I've been learning and using lately, including node.js, CouchDB, redis, ExpressJS, Jade, Stylus, and maybe a bit of general JavaScript & jQuery.
Making a few tweaks to the HTML, mostly updates to HTML5. Still posting blog entries with manual mysql inserts for the moment, but I think I'll be making a helpful form my next priority.
Whew! Made a lot of progress with what little free time I've had over the past month. So far I've got the comments system working, implemented pagination of the blog listings, filled in some brief descriptions over in my Projects list, fleshed out my resume a bit more, and added a few other little goodies here and there.
The parts I'm most proud of are hCard and hResume support in the resume, and when you leave me a comment I'll get a DM on Twitter notifying me of it right away =D
Still need to implement actual blog posting/editing, but MySQL Query Browser works fine for now.
I suppose it's been a while since I've done anything with this site, but I think it's time I give it another go. I've completely redesigned it from scratch, and will be rewriting all the code from the ground up, starting with the blog system. I'm re-using the existing database system, though I've moved it from my old host, 1and1, to Dreamhost.
Old links probably won't work for a little while, but I'll be working to fix that as soon as possible.